Education as a Vaccine (EVA) is a youth-led, youth-focused non-profit organization created to work in partnership with children, adolescents and young people in particular adolescent girls and young women to advance their rights to health and freedom from all forms of violence by strengthening their capacities, providing direct services and influencing policies for improved quality of life. We are recruiting to fill the position below:<\/p>\n
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Job Title:\u00a0Consultant<\/strong> Task Purpose<\/strong><\/p>\n Background<\/strong> PITCH\u2019s Health Financing advocacy project aims to enhance the knowledge and technical expertise of PITCH partners in domestic resource mobilization for HIV and budget advocacy. The objective is to ensure that PITCH partners have the right skills, tools and evidence for credible and effective advocacy. With this project, PITCH will contribute to ensuring meaningful engagement of and advocacy by key and vulnerable populations for financing for HIV, influencing government budgets, ensuring equitable access to quality health services and financial protection for those most vulnerable.<\/p>\n PITCH Nigeria therefore, seeks to engage the services of a consultant in Nigeria to strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations in health financing advocacy. The consultant will be responsible for ensuring that the process is executed in a way that promotes coherence and constructive multi-stakeholder collaboration in an effort to hold the government accountable for the use of funds allocated to health, as well as improve the capacity of participants to advocate for more (domestic) funding for the HIV response.<\/p>\n To achieve this, the project will hire a consultant in Nigeria to strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations in domestic resource mobilization for HIV and budget advocacy in a way that promotes coherence and constructive multi-stakeholder collaboration in an effort to hold then government to account for the level and use of funds allocated to health.<\/p>\n The consultancy aims to:<\/strong><\/p>\n Scope of Consultancy<\/strong> Key Deliverables:<\/strong><\/p>\n Tentative Time Schedule<\/strong> Qualifications and Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n In addition, the Consultant should possess the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n Note:<\/strong> The consultant will participate in the Global Fund Training, and therefore, will be required to complete and show a completion certification of the full Health Financing Policy for universal health coverage (UHC) course offered online by WHO. The physical workshop is tentatively scheduled to hold in Kenya, and the selected consultant will be funded to participate, as this this is covered by the terms of this consultancy.<\/p>\n To Apply<\/strong> The technical proposal should not be more than 5 pages (typed with font size 12), and should detail the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n Required Attachment to the Application<\/strong><\/p>\n Note<\/strong><\/p>\n Application Deadline:\u00a0<\/strong>30th May, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Education as a Vaccine (EVA) is a youth-led, youth-focused non-profit organization created to work in partnership with children, adolescents and young people in particular adolescent girls and young women to…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nLocation:<\/strong>\u00a0Abuja, Nigeria
\nProgramme: <\/strong>Partnership to Inspire, Transform and Connect the HIV response (PITCH)
\nDuration of Engagement:<\/strong> June \u2013 September, 2020<\/p>\n\n
\nPITCH is a 5-year project (2016-2020) and is part of the policy framework; Dialogue and Dissent of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The programme\u2019s purpose is to fight HIV\/AIDS in 9 countries (Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Mozambique, Nigeria, Myanmar, Indonesia, Vietnam and Ukraine) most affected by HIV with a focus on key populations and women and girls. PITCH is a strategic partnership between AIDSFONDS, Frontline AIDS and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. PITCH is committed to enabling these groups to transform national HIV responses by strengthening their advocacy skills and capacities and promoting innovative evidence-informed practices. With these skills, it is hoped that this will enable PITCH partners to advocate for a more effective response to ensure all people have equal access to sexual and reproductive health services, including HIV-related services.<\/p>\n\n
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\nInterested and qualified candidates should submit their technical and financial proposal and other requested documents to:\u00a0jobs.evanigeria@gmail.com<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0copying\u00a0consultancy@pitchnigeria.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n
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